Jacob Torfing is an MA, Ph.D., and professor in Politics and Institutions at Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark, and professor 2 at Nord University in Norway. He is the director of The Roskilde School of Governance at Roskilde University. He has published more than 25 books including Public Governance Paradigms: Competing and Coexisting (with Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Carsten Greve and Kurt Klaudi Klausen, Edward Elgar, 2020), How Does Collaborative Governance Scale? (editor, with Christopher Ansell, Policy Press, 2018), and Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector (Georgetown University Press, 2016). The latter received Choice Magazine’s 2017 Outstanding Academic Title Award. His research interests include public sector reforms, democracy, political leadership, network governance, collaborative innovation, and co-creation.